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WILLIAM R. KNOWLES, or .GOLUMBIANA. 01110.

Letters Patent No.99,914, dated Febraary'l5, 1870.

IMPROVED TRACE-BUCKLE FOR HARNESS.

The Schedule, referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of thesamo T 0 all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, WILLIAM R. KNOWLES, of the town of Golumbiana, and State of Ohio, haveinvented a new and useful I mprovcment in Harness-Buckles; and I do hereby declare thefollowing to be afull, clear,

I and exact description of the construction and operation To enable others skilled in the art to make and use my invention, I will proceed to describe it.

This buckle may be constructed of cast or malleable iron, or othermetal, in one piece, and in the'form shown in fig. 2 of the drawings.

E represents the buckle.

F, a loop formed upon the rear end of the same, through which the breeching-strap may pass.

fis a. tongue projecting from the cross-plate G of the buckle; and

e c are holes madein the buckle, through which the rivets are placed when it is applied to the traces of the harness and fastened to the same, as seen in fig. 1.

A represents a portion or one part of a trace, the same being attached to the homes in any usual manner, at or near the holes 0 represents the saddle-pad, and B the saddle-strap. This strap is continuous around the body of the horse, forming, at the same time, supports for the traces when connected with the buckle, and also a belly-band, as shown in fig. 1.

It will be observed thatthe leather portion of the harness is connected in no other way to this buckle than by. means of the rivets referred to and the tongue of the buckle; consequently there are no bends or .loops required to be formed in the leather, and the labor of sewing or stitching such bends orloops entirelydispensed with.

By this inode of constructing a buckle, from sixto eight inches in length of leather is saved in each single harness, thus, taking the aggregate number of barncsses manufiictured, it can be casily demonstratedthat the saving in material and labor amounts to a verylarge sum of moneywithin" a given period.

I am aware that patents have been already issued for buckles that in their general appearance seem to embrace some of the features claimed by me as my invention, but a careful inspection of them will make it apparent'that they do not show or claim the improvement herein described by me. I thcreibre disclaim the inventions described and shown in the patents of George P. Goles, H..Hisc, G. M. Hai'ui'sh, and H. S. Woodrufi'.

What I do claim as my invention, and'desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-'- he construction of a metallic harness-buckle in one piece, with only a top, bottom, and back loop, \vhcn riveted to the trace ortraces, and having formed upon it a cross-bar containing a pivot or tongue to enter into a saddle-strap, in the mannerand for the purpose herein described. V

Wituessesz' WILLIAM R. KNOWLES.

J osniu Romuzaueu, H. N. GATES. 

